XP - Desktop Wont Load, Graphics Error

Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop. XP Pro. 2GB RAM. Getting some sort of graphics error. I went through my processes this morning and found a trojan(sqlserver.exe) and ended the other programs that I knew didnt need to be running. Must of ended the wrong one...

It starts fine and right before its supposed to load the desktop the screen goes black and I get a LoginUI.exe winlogon.exe error. OK to terminate, cancel to debug. Then it goes to blue screen and says Windows load process error and I have to manually shut it down. I can go into safe mode(which is how im typing this)

Tried doing system restore back to yesterday but same problem. Going to try it again and try to back a little bit further. Did a Diagnostic test and it passed everyone but the Graphics one and said error. ATI Mobility Radeon X300 display adaptor.

Heres a screenshot from a few weeks ago showing what was going on with it. Main reason I went through the processes was because my CPU usage kept spiking. Got it down to 27 or 28 processes this morning and now this problem

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u32/Roush03/Clipboard01-47.jpg

 

JEEEZ!!! That's alot of running processes! WOW! Click Start > Run and type msconfig and click the Startup tab and start unchecking things. You can probably select 'Disable All'. If you still have a problem, go into the Device Manager and right click the Display Adapter and select Remove (be sure to download a new video driver first, but don't install it yet). Doing this will 'force' Windows to look for and install a replacement video driver the next time you boot up. So, after removing the Display Adapter, boot up in normal mode. Cancel the hardware wizard when it starts, then run the video driver install and reboot when done. Hopefully that will do it. You can then re-enable some of the items you unchecked in the msconfig startup list if you need them, but chances are, you really don't need all those things running in the background at all times, just the antivirus and other security programs, and that's about it. From looking at your processes, it looks like you have several wifi configurators running; you don't any. WinXP has wifi connectivity built-in. The process named 'WM-Desktop-Alert' is most likely a virus or "rogue-ware" (a fake antimalware program that looks legit but is actually a virus).

 

Thanks for the response! Only problem is where would I download a new driver at?

Also run isnt showing up in safe mode. How do I do this?

 

WM Desktop Alert is a whiskey milita updated listing of things they have for sale. I need it running:-D

 

From Dell, of course
http://support.dell.com/support/dow...-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=6&fileid=137656

 

Just picked up a 320GB WD ext. Gonna try and back everything up and then try what you recommended. If that doesnt work, I may go back to XP again or get Vista..